Handily coming some time before the 2018-19 Premier League season kicks off.

EE customers will be able to send BT Sport live streams to their TV sets via Google Chromecast in time for the next Premier League season.

BT, which owns EE, typically locks out Chromecast functionality of its iOS and Android apps, unless you also happen to take a BT TV subscription as well.

But now that BT has announced plans for greater convergence of its fixed-line and mobile operations, its changed its mind; later on this year, all you’ll need to be able to 'cast BT content to your TV is an EE pay monthly contract either with BT Sport bundled in, or a BT Sport App subscription, which costs £5/month.

Chromecast, Google's hockey puck-looking toy, is designed to make it easy to watch content you've found on your phone on your TV; it plugs into a spare HDMI port, connects to your router via WiFi, which your phone then needs to be connected to. Tapping the Cast icon which appears somewhere on the screen of compatible apps will see that content sent to your TV over either the 2.4GHz or 5GHz band - the latest Chromecast supports dual-band WiFi, which makes sense as most phones these days do to and the fact that most people will be doing this in their living rooms - or whichever room your TV and router are set up in - means that walls and other obstacles shouldn't impede 5GHz traffic.

BT Sport has the rights to broadcast and stream live coverage of 42 Premier League games per season, as well as UEFA Champions League and Europa League fixtures.